Are you GLOW-ing yet?

 “I’ll take Peace Above the Storm and I’d like personal bible studies as well.” Krystal, an 18-year-old church member from Ceres, California, couldn’t believe her ears. Just moments earlier she hesitated, trembling even, in front of her neighbor’s door not knowing what to expect. Krystal was canvassing for the first time in her life and now her neighbor, Carolyn, not only wanted a book but also was asking for Bible studies! Forty-Five minutes later she and her friend Sachi had sold eleven magabooks in Krystal’s neighborhood, including titles like The Great Controversy.

Believe it or not, Krystal was not a student literature evangelist working during the summer. She hadn’t gone to a Bible college for evangelistic training. She hadn’t even given much thought to canvassing before. So how did Krystal get involved with a successful literature evangelism program, right in her own neighborhood?

“I had some time on my hands this year because of my school schedule, so I decided to do something for the Lord and get involved with GLOW,” Krystal smiles.

GLOW, Giving Light to Our World, is a conference-wide evangelistic initiative in Central California equipping members from every church with the ability and training to participate in literature ministries whether they do it door-to-door or learn to be a literature evangelist by lifestyle. The sixty-three church members from the two initial churches are giving away and/or learning how to sell literature in a variety of ways.

Each participating member is given the choice of getting involved in GLOW’s four levels of participation. The first level teaches church members how to distribute free literature in planned and intentional ways, making literature evangelism a lifestyle without knocking on doors. In the second level, after taking a quick survey in their own neighborhoods, church members pair up and hand out free literature. Level three trains the church members to start selling Magabooks. And finally, during the fourth level everyone learns to sell hardcover sets of books.

Krystal, as well as many other church members, are discovering what a blessing it is to be involved in “the very work the Lord would have his people do at this time.” (6T p.313) People from the surrounding communities are already responding to the local church outreach by calling the contact information and requesting Bible studies.

God’s work is moving forward through the written word from the very first publication written in stone on Mount Sinai until today where it is laying the foundation for the last message of mercy in earth’s history. The call still sounds to us today to be “imitators of God”; the same God who stands at the door and knocks seeking to save the lost.

Nelson Ernst
Associate Literature Ministries Director
Central California Conference
 


 

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